Hovden, Jan Fredrik

Nygren, Gunnar

Zilliacus-Tikkanen, Henrika

Responsible organisation

Nordic Council of Ministers, NORDICOM

Abstract [en]

“This edited volume addresses journalism education as a central component of journalistic professionalization, making it necessary to understand what is a crucial period in most future journalists’ lives. Nowadays, journalism scholars are realizing the need for more sustained, in-depth and critical studies of why students embark on such degrees, how they develop their professional views and practices at universities, how the educational curricula of journalism programs match the needs of the labor market, and also, what the news industry thinks about journalism courses and their graduates. This volume addresses all of these important questions in-depth, with admirable attention to different elements that may explain all these issues.

The comparative perspective of looking at the Nordic countries breaks new ground considering the paucity of comparative studies on journalism education in specific media systems. The authors that take part of this book employ an array of quantitative and qualitative approaches to study the field of journalism education, providing a rich account that, no doubt, will be essential reading for students, researchers, the media industry, policy-makers and all people interested in journalism education and professionalization.”

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages

Göteborg: Nordicom, 2016. , p. 338

Keywords [en]

Journalism, Journalist education, Nordic countries

National Category

Social Sciences

Research subject

Media

Identifiers

Note

This book is strongly rooted in the Nordic Conferences for Journalism Teachers.The first versions of most contributions in this volume were presented at MakingJournalists through Journalism Education: Nordic Perspectives, a pre-conference forthe teacher conference in Reykjavik in autumn of 2014.